Barnes died Sunday, Nov. 13. He was 91 years old.
Barnes served four terms in Springfield, representing the South Side of Chicago. He helped form the influential Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, and sponsored the first Illinois Lottery legislation.
Barnes resigned his state House seat in 1979, when he was appointed as the first Black board chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority. He was later elected chairman of the American Public Transportation Association. After his term in government service, Barnes became a lobbyist with the Springfield firm Cook-Witter Inc., and later established his own lobbyist firm, E.M. Barnes & Associates.Barnes was born in Chicago on July 24, 1931, and graduated from Wendell Phillips High School. Actress Marla Gibbs of"The Jeffersons" and"227" fame was among his classmates.
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